Taylor Swift lends personal items to UK’s V&A for museum ‘journey’
LONDON — Outfits, musical instruments and other objects on loan from US musician Taylor Swift are going on display at London’s V&A in a...
Deluge of stars at Venice Film Festival after 2023 drought
ROME — Stars will bedeck this year’s Venice Film Festival, as the beach-lined Lido bounces back from the 2023 actors’ strike that deprived the...
Sneaking vegetables into children’s food
SINCE the launch of Mega Bigay Sustansya in 2019, Mega Prime Foods, Inc. (the company behind Mega Sardines and Tuna, among others) has fed more than 1,700 schoolchildren more than 370,000 meals.
Typhoon Carina donations
PRIVATE and public organizations are currently collecting donations for those affected by the heavy rains brought by Typhoon Carina and the monsoon.
Celebrity chef Myke...
Sustainable sake: Tokyo brewer uses music, modern methods to counter climate impact
TOKYO — The gentle lilt of a flute fills a cramped second-story space in Tokyo that houses a burbling vat of fermenting sake.
The bacteria...
Blast at Jose Cuervo plant in Mexico kills at least five people
MEXICO CITY — An explosion at a Jose Cuervo tequila plant in central Mexico killed at least five company workers and forced the evacuation...
Paris restaurants struggle in Olympic security zones
PARIS — Cafes along the banks of the Seine in Paris normally buzz with activity in the summer, but restrictions ahead of the Olympics...
Tasmanian ‘Eco-Milk’ tests shoppers’ thirst for climate-friendly dairy
CANBERRA — A small dairy in Tasmania is stocking supermarket shelves with what it says is the world’s first branded milk produced by cows...
Ballet Philippines turns romantic
BALLET Philippines (BP) is opening its 55th season with one of the oldest surviving romantic ballets in history.
For La Sylphide, the classical and contemporary...
Forms of wonderment
IT IS in the act of exploration that one can discover beauty and magic in the world and put it on canvas. At Art...
Dream of an unfinished but special issue
A WOULD-BE columnist once expressed his hesitation at starting to write regularly for a newspaper or magazine, saying he had a profound fear of the slip of the pen, of being misunderstood due to a misused idiom or phrase, a slipshod consequence of a missing word or misplaced punctuation mark that can make a world of difference from which the writer originally intended.
Ortigas Art Festival celebrates art without borders
THE ORTIGAS Art Festival (OAF) is showcasing more diverse artists from all over the Philippines for its 7th year.
With the theme “Art for All,”...